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“THE JOB’S DONE.” THE MAKWAR DAM CONTRACT. (Frem Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 22. A young English engineer, still in his thirties, named John Gibson, of Middlesbrough, who iwas mainly responsible for a reconstruction of the Mak,war Dam, said when he returned after its completion : “The job’s done, let’s forget it. I do not believe in advertising myself.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. The Makwar Dam is a few miles north of Sennaar, on tire Blue Nile. It cost £10,000,600, and it was constructed for the purpose of facilitating cotton growing in She G-ezira area.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19696, 25 January 1926, Page 9
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94MODEST MAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 19696, 25 January 1926, Page 9
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